ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM


An excellent compilation of symptoms of homeopathic medicine Antimonium Crudum from the book Pearls of Homeopathy by M.E. Douglass, published in 1903….


Child is fretful and peevish, does not wish to be touched or looked at.

Sulky, does not not wish to speak with any one.

Redness and inflammation of eyelids.

Sore, cracked, and crusty nostrils.

Suppurating and long-lasting eruptions on cheeks.

Tongue coated thick white.

Belching, with taste of what has been eaten, vomiting of mucus and bile.

Stool watery, with little hard lumps, or containing undigested food.

Alternate constipation and diarrhoea of old people.

Loss of voice.

Arthritic pains in the fingers.

Young people disposed to obesity.

Gastric complaints from overeating; stomach weak; digestion easily disturbed.

Anxious, lachrymose mood; the slightest thing affects her.

Irresistible desire to talk in rhymes or repeat verse.

Disposition to abnormal growths of skin; finger nails do not grow rapidly; crushed nails grow in splits, like wards; and with horny spots.

Large horny places (corns) on soles, which are very sensitive when walking, especially on stony pavements. When symptoms reappear, they change locality, or go from one side of the body to the other.

Sweat at same hour every other day.

Great desire for pickles.

The menses appear before the girl is of a proper age.

Leucorrhoea causes a biting or smarting sensation down the thighs.

Profuse discharge of acrid water mixed with plugs.

Ulcerated cervix uteri, discharging acrid water and pus.

Melford Eugene Douglass
M.E.Douglass, MD, was a Lecturer of Dermatology in the Southern Homeopathic Medical College of Baltimore. He was the author of - Skin Diseases: Their Description, Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment; Repertory of Tongue Symptoms; Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica.